WIAS and CAMRI are pleased to invite you to the book launch of “DigitalDemagogue” by our joint director, Professor Christian Fuchs.

Christian Fuchs will be giving an introduction to “Digital Demagogue”, a timely and topicalstudy of the expressions of ideology, nationalism and authoritarianism in the age of big dataand social media, and discusses the prospects for overcoming capitalism and renewing theLeft.

We’re all familiar with the ways that Donald Trump uses digital media to communicate, fromthe ridiculous to the terrifying. This book digs deeper into the use of those tools in politics toshow how they have facilitated the rise of authoritarianism, nationalism, and right-wingideologies around the world.

Media like Twitter have been used to spread right-wing ideology far and wide, and make itseem like an ordinary part of contemporary political discourse. Fuchs diagnoses this problemin stark terms, but he doesn’t stop there: he also lays out ways to fight it, and analyses theprospects for pushing past capitalism and renewing the Left.

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